🍻 Ready to plan your perfect pour? 🍻
The 2024 Fall Beer & Cider Festival at the WindsorEats Food Hall is just around the corner, and we’ve got the inside scoop on all the brews and ciders you’ll be able to sip on! From local craft favorites to exciting new releases, this year’s lineup has something for every taste. Whether you’re into hoppy IPAs, smooth stouts, or refreshing ciders, you won’t want to miss what’s in store.
From local favourites like Chapter Two Brewing Co. and Windmill Ridge Craft Cider & Beer to the big hitters like Cowbell Brewing Co. and Left Field Brewery, this year’s festival is packed with variety. Get your taste buds ready for an evening filled with unique flavors and a chance to mingle with fellow beer enthusiasts. Grab your tickets now and prepare for an unforgettable night of sipping, sampling, and celebrating all things beer and cider! Tickets are available here: 2024 Fall Beer & Cider Festival.
Keep scrolling to check out the full list of beers and ciders being offered at the festival—because half the fun is picking out what you’re going to try first! Cheers! 🍻
Chapter Two Brewing Co. (beer)
- The Boss’s Brew Ginger Rye Farmhouse (5.5%): aromatic ginger with a spicey interplay of rye and ginger
- Baboon Heart Cascadian Dark Ale (6.2%): a perfect marriage between dark malts and American hops – subdues roasted chocolate caramel notes
- Lloyd Javelin Amber (5%): Perfectly balanced beer – a real beer as they like to say at the brewery.
- Mystery Pilot Batch: made specifically for the Festival.
Cowbell Brewing (beer & cider)
- Nitro Stout (4.2%): Brewed with Canadian 2-row malted barley, loads of cookie-like oats, dark chocolatey malts, and nitrogenated to elevate its silky-smooth cocoa character.
- Hazy Days Juicy IPA (6%): Brewed with an outrageous amount of Galaxy, Mosaic, Mandarina and El Dorado hops to create a supremely refreshing and delicious beer. Bursts with tantalizing tropical hop aromas and juicy flavours of mango, pineapple, papaya and sweet orange.
- Absent Landlord (5.3%): This Kolsch ale is light in body with delicate hop character and lively carbonation.
- Original Dry Cider (5%): fresh aromatic profile of apple and subtle citrus, with a dry, crisp mouthfeel. It’s delicate body is refreshing offering complex and elaborate fruit notes with vibrant apple character.
- Bob Cat Red Ale (5.5%): Inspired by West Coast Pale Ales and IPAs, this dangerously delicious ruby-red ale drinks smooth with soft caramel malt characteristics
- Black Cherry Cider (5%): This refreshingly smooth and delicious cider captures the taste of wonderfully fresh apples and floral and tart flavours. Only a limited amount available in the province!
Craft Heads Brewing Company
- Bluesberry Blonde (5.2%): This blueberry infused ale comes big with the berry flavour but finishes clean with toasty malt undertones.
Grain & Grit (beer)
- Bob’s Best English Ale (4.4%): An English-style Bitter with aromas of toffee, rye bread, fresh orange zest and caramelized banana, and flavours of over-steeped Orange Pekoe Tea, dried orange peel, walnuts and toasted pumpernickel bread. All of this goodness is wrapped up with a dry, tannic and slightly floral on the finish.
- Ziggy Zagge German Wheat (5.4%): This beer is all about those fresh, citrusy aromas and a touch of candied banana. Each sip hits with flavours of ripe banana and orange, balanced with clove, coriander, with a hint of earthy-ness and subtle black pepper. A fluffy head and a hazy pour.
- Hot Fun Sour (5.5%): Turn up the flavour with Hot Fun, our bold new sour. Brewed with mango terpene, orange extract, and a touch of vanilla, this beer bursts with aromas of Hubba Bubba, orange zest, and juicy mango. On the palate, you’ll get sweet orange, ripe mango, and tangy passionfruit with a mouth-puckering sour finish that keeps things bright and playful.
- Pinky Swear IPA: Bold, fresh aromas of mango, peach, pineapple, honeydew melon, orange juice, and a hint of basil. The flavour is packed with juicy peach, fresh pineapple, lychee, grapefruit pith, and lime zest, with a touch of black pepper on the finish. Alora in the whirlpool and dry hopping with Ariana, Calista, Hallertau Blanc, and Tango hops to give this juicy IPA a vibrant, tropical character with a citrusy, hop-forward bite.
Indie Ale House (beer)
- SWIRL cherry & raspberry sour (5%): Made with cherries & raspberries, balanced, refreshing, & crushable, the perfect summer sour!
- Instigator IPA (6.5%): Flagship West Coast style IPA. Clean and bitter with strong aromas of pine and citrus.
- Bionda Italian Pilsner (5%):
- Rabbit of Carebanog IPA (6%): Like the vicious rabbit that slowed the search for the Holy Grail, this wheat based IPA is deceiving. It smells like tropical fruit and looks light, but it has a strong and bitter bite. Beware of the bunny.
Left Field Brewery
- Mr. Oktober German Lager (5.4%): Showcasing elegant German malt flavours like bread crusts, honey, graham cracker, and lightly floral Tettnanger hops, with easy spice and citrus notes. Crisp and balanced.
- Sweet Spot Mocha Marshmallow Stout (6.2%): A sweet stout recipe with added lactose, roasted & crushed cocoa nibs and coffee beans during conditioning. The result is a rich and decadent blend of chocolate, caramel and vanilla.
- Squeeze Play Concord Grape Sour (5.8%): Fruity, tarty, sweet and tangy – we added Concord grape juice concentrate to our favourite fruited sour to create a grown-up grape soda that your inner child is going to love.
- Paloma Seltzer (5%): Crystal clear, fizzy hard seltzer. Naturally fermented with no added sugar and all natural fruit flavours.
- Glorioso Italian Pilsner (5.5%): From premium Eraclea barley grown near the Adriatic Sea northeast of Venice. This dry, crisp, Italian pilsner is generously dry hopped with Hallertau Mittelfruh and Styrian Bobek to impart elegant, floral, earthy, sweet spice and citrus aroma and flavour.
- IPA (TBD):
Lot 10 Brewery (beer)
- Rivertown Blonde Ale (4.5%): This ale is light, easy to drink, and approachable. Well rounded and smooth. A great ale for lager lovers!
- Nuclear Sunset NEIPA (7%): Unfiltered and heavily dry-hopped. This New England style IPA is beautifully hazy with slight bready notes, with citrus being the dominant flavour.
- Thrift Shop Milk Stout (6%): Pours jet black with a tan head. Notes of coffee, chocolate, and caramel. Starts sweet and finishes mildly bitter. *Contains lactose*
- Daft Punk Pumpkin Spiced Ale:
Rose City Beer Works (beer)
- Imperial Stout #4 – Coffee (8.5%): A big Imperial Stout with very balanced flavors. Robust coffee flavor with chocolate, caramel and earthy undertones.
- Black IPA (6.2%): Black IPA featuring Nectaron and Citra Hops
- Amber (6%): Medium bodied Amber Ale, notes of caramel with red berry fruit, citrus undertones
- 519 Blonde (4%): Light bodied ale with refreshing fruit and citrus notes
Shale Ridge Estate Winery (cider)
- Raspberry Rosé Cider (5%): This mouthwatering cider is infused with farm fresh raspberries and hibiscus tea. Sweet notes of ripe raspberries and it finishes off with a zest of lemon.
- Harvest Spice Cider (6.8%): A blend of fresh Ontario pears, blueberries, and oranges with fresh apples and a hint of spice. A festive season favourite.
- Peach Apple Cider (5%): Aromas of farm fresh peaches on the nose. Crisp notes of our heritage apples. Refreshing and light a for sure delight!
- Apple Water (0%): Non alcoholic cider similar to a sparking water but with less carbonation and more flavour. There is no added sugar, no preservatives, and its naturally gluten free making it a clean, refreshing, and delicious beverage!
Walkerville Brewery (beer & cider)
- Rob Roy Scotch Ale (7%): The dark garnet color of the Walkerville Brewery Scotch Ale will please the eyes as much as the toasted toffee maltiness will delight the palate. The robust flavour is accented by a semi-sweet front and a dry, roasted finish. This highly drinkable beer packs a rich taste and a deliciously intoxicating aroma.
- Argyle Cider (5%): Cider that has a crisp, clean, semi-sweet palate which is complemented by a ripe apple, fruity nose from back sweetening with 100% Ontario apple juice.
- TBD Seasonal:
- TBD
Windmill Ridge Craft Cider & Beer (beer & cider)
- Peach Cider (5%): Handpicked at their family farm, Kranicz Orchards. Each sip is free from artificial flavours, offering you the pure, unadulterated taste of Ontario’s finest peaches.
- Pear-Apple Cider: All-natural pear-apple cider, meticulously crafted from pears and apples cultivated in their very own Kranicz Orchards. With no artificial flavors.
- Peach & Cream Ale:
